Will anything come of this brittish "memo?"

[YEM]

I have been disapointed too many times about "memos" and thinking they might bring this jackass down. What exactly is so damning in this memo? Will anything come of this?

[liberal N proud]

1. The US propaganda machines will never pick it up

CNN, FAUX, NBC, ABC will never give it the light of day!

[KoKo]

2. Only when the polls start to hit really high disapproval #'s for Iraq

Invasion. The polls are showing more folks are waking up.

Or..if Blair/Labour is hurt in tomorrow's vote Parliamentary Election.

Or..a major sex scandal turns up in the Bush White House...higher up than "jimmy/jeff."

Just my opinion.

[blm]

3. No truth can get traction with fascists in control of most broadcast media

in this country.

The GOP was really smart in taking control of most of the broadcast news channels by using their corporate cronies to buy them up over the last twenty years.

Really smart, and undeniably FASCIST.

[ktowntennesseedem]

4. Blitz Wolfer was announcing the runaway bride press conference

tomorrow afternoon. Wow, I can't wait; what a story!!!

:sarcasm:

[kcass1954]

5. Memo? What memo?

Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

[BurtWorm]

6. I asked Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/04/28/DI2005042800981.html


New York, N.Y.: Dan, a secret memo published on Sunday in the Times of London is threatening to hobble Blair if not do him in when Parliamentary elections are held shortly. The memo states explicitly that the head of MI6 "reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

The full text of the memo is here:

The secret Downing Street Memo.

Why isn't this news, which is rattling U.K. politics, having similarly earth-shattering effects in D.C., do you think? Do you think it might reverberate, or do people inside the Beltway see this as strictly a British phenomenon?

To follow up, if you don't mind: does this represent any legal problems for the Bush administration, insofar as it suggests they were planning to "fix the facts" to have a war? Or is the only potential threat a political one?

Dan Froomkin: Well, in some ways it's old news, isn't it? A lot of people have said Bush and Cheney were intent on attacking Iraq from Day One. The question is whether they cooked the intelligence -- and of course the White House's own commission recently said they did not, and no one, apparently, has proven that they did.

That said, there are a lot of people e-mailing me about this, so I'm putting it out there.